Quick Take: Read What Jesus Said
The Michael Steele Podcast
The Bulwark
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Michael Steele speaks with best-selling author Tim Alberta about his new book, "The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism." The pair discuss how Christian values in America have become enmeshed in MAGA politics, how the purpose of the church has been misinterpreted, what Tim observed on the American Restoration Tour and what being a Christian means to him.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Michael Steele podcast listeners, Michael Steele here with another quick take from the Michael Steele podcast. |
| 0:13.7 | Check out what's going on right now. |
| 0:16.2 | Welcome back everybody to Michael Steele podcast. |
| 0:18.8 | Michael Steele here with my buddy Tim Alberta who has written one hell of a book I have to tell you you got you got to pick it up you got to pick it up Christmas list right everybody gets a copy the kingdom of, the power, and the glory |
| 0:33.2 | American evangelicalism in the age of extremism. |
| 0:37.4 | Tim, I want to get into so much. |
| 0:43.0 | What do you, I see you licking your chops over there. |
| 0:47.0 | There's so much dude, look, I got notes. My notes have notes in preparation for this conversation. |
| 0:52.0 | It is so, we, we, we, we, we, have notes in preparation for this conversation. |
| 0:52.6 | It is so, we, we, we, we, |
| 0:55.0 | forward to break you, we're talking about |
| 0:58.0 | the pastor in Australia, John Dickens, Dixon, and what his experience was there. |
| 1:08.6 | You also got into, you embedded yourself into the restoration, |
| 1:15.1 | American Restoration Tour, |
| 1:18.4 | which you detail that, which to me was my characterization you are a better man than me. |
| 1:28.0 | I would have lost it 15 minutes on the bus. But talk to us about what this American |
| 1:35.8 | restoration tour was all about and and in how it exposed the moral relativism that we see out there. |
| 1:48.2 | Yeah, so in some in some sense, it's two sides of the same coin when you talk about John Dixon, this Australian theologian who is coming from a country that just a couple of years ago Michael statistically became a post Christian nation for the first time in its history, right? |
| 2:08.0 | Their Census Bureau there reported that now less than 50% of Australians identify as followers of Jesus. |
| 2:16.0 | And so he comes to teach in the United States because that's what's coming here and |
| 2:21.0 | he's trying to equip Christians here to as he says to lose |
| 2:26.7 | well what does that mean to lose well right yeah he's this idea of you know |
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